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What a Tik Top Ban Means for our Youth - Inglewood Today News

By Maya Mackey In case you haven’t heard, the online video platform Tik Tok is under threat in the U.S. Some American government officials believe Tik Tok’s Chinese parent company, ByteDance Ltd., has access to American data and is selling Americans’ private information to the Chinese government. (Why this matters when Mark Zuckerberg has also […]

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Jamila E. Taylor, a long-time community advocate and founding board member of Blackpast.org, graduated from University of Oregon School of Law with a Doctor of Jurisprudence and obtained her BA in Sociology from Virginia State University. She is an energetic motivator with “an unrelenting

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Source: Black Past

Bushiris: Formal extradition request served to Malawian authorities

The Bushiris, who are implicated in a money laundering scandal, left South Africa for Malawi a few weeks ago, breaking their bail conditions.

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Source: South African News | Online News | The South African

After the siege, we need civics education – Florida Courier

ARNE DUNCAN AND APRIL RYAN NEW YORK DAILY NEWS If the last five years in American politics have taught us one thing, it is that we can all use a refresher course in civics. The events of Jan. 6 were only the latest and most extreme illustration of America’s confusion over the meaning of words

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Source: Florida Courier

(1964) Malcolm X’s Speech at the Founding Rally of the Organization of Afro-American Unity

Malcolm X’s life changed dramatically in the first six months of 1964. On March 8, he left the Nation of Islam. In May he toured West Africa and made a pilgrimage to Mecca, returning as El Hajj Malik El-Shabazz. While in Ghana in May, he decided to form the Organization of Afro-American Unity

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Source: Black Past

Four Stress Management Techniques So You Can Stop Feeling Guilty About Lashing Out At Loved Ones

While this pandemic has caused us to stop and recognize the things that truly matter, being on lockdown with family can be emotionally overwhelming, and heightened stress levels can cause us to lash out at the people we care about more than usual.

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Source: MadameNoire

TCI's Opposition PNP wants economy reopened

The Opposition Progressive National Party (PNP) in the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI) has urged the Government there to hastily convene a high-level conference of stakeholders to craft a plan for speedy reopening of the economy, hopefully by the beginning of

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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com

(1963) Josephine Baker, “Speech at the March on Washington”

Josephine Baker is remembered by most people as the flamboyant African American entertainer who earned fame and fortune in Paris in the 1920s. Yet through much of her later life, Baker became a vocal opponent of segregation and discrimination, often initiating one-woman protests against racial

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Source: Black Past

Uganda's Schooling System Doesn't Politically Empower Young People

[The Conversation Africa] More than 20 years ago, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development stated that:

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Source: allAfrica.com

4-H Clubs to ramp up youth engagement in agriculture this year

THE Jamaica 4-H Clubs will be introducing new initiatives and programmes this year to engage more young Jamaicans in the business of agriculture.Executive director of the organisation, Dr Ronald Blake, told JIS News that the first quarter of the new year, between January and March, will be spent

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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com

ITL Scholars programme for female students ages 14-16 - Voice Online

WE EDUCATE, inspire and empower children and young people to unlock their full potential as we believe, regardless of their circumstances, those from disadvantaged African and Caribbean heritage backgrounds have tremendous potential.

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Source: Britain's Favourite Black Newspaper - Voice Online

NAACP Educational Counseling Committee

The Boston Branch of the NAACP founded its Educational Counseling Committee in 1948 to provide higher education information and guidance to Black young people in Boston high schools. Twenty years later in 1968 the Committee counseled over 340 students and awarded $20,000 in direct college aid to 60

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Source: African Americans in Boston: More Than 350 Years

Sudanese Professionals Association Protests Against RSF Detention Centres Continue

[Radio Dabanga] Khartoum / El Obeid -- A protest demanding the closure of the Rapid Support Forces' (RSF) detention centres was held on Thursday, meanwhile Resistance Committees protested for the redirection of the course Sudan's revolution in the city of El Obeid, North Kordofan.

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Source: allAfrica.com

Bay State Golf Association

The Bay State Golf Association was founded in 1938 by Black golfers from Medford and Boston. In these early years they played at Sagamore Springs in Lynnfield, one of the few golf courses open to Blacks. Bay State's first annual tournament was held in 1940 at Ponkapoag Golf Club in Canton. This

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Source: African Americans in Boston: More Than 350 Years

Open Letter - The New York Beacon

Dear Editor, The events of January 6, 2021 in the nation’s capitol, represent the culmination of a widespread revolutionary assault on the American way of life. The assault has been directed at all three branches of government: the executive branches of the fifty

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Source: The New York Beacon - Arming Black Millennials With Information

MLB and City of Houston Parks Department Agree to Continue MLB Youth Academy at Sylvester Turner Park

The Houston Parks and Recreation Department recently announced the Houston Parks and Recreation Department, Major League Baseball Youth Foundation and the Astros Foundation, are extending the operating agreement between the entities for the MLB Youth Academy at Sylvester Turner

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Source: Houston Forward Times - Reporting The Truth | Affecting Change | Moving Forward

Toyota/Lexus Minority Owners to Sponsor National ‘COVID-19 Day of Service’

BOWIE, MD – The Toyota/Lexus Minority Owners Dealership Association (TLMODA) is working with The Salvation Army to fill the pantries of families in need during the coronavirus

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Source: Black Enterprise - The Premier Resource for Black Entrepreneurs and Career, Tech, and Money Content for Black People - Black Ent

ANCYL wants Tshwane comrades who launched 'steaming campaign' against Covid-19 arrested | News24

The ANC Youth League crisis committee, has called for the arrest of the Tshwane regional task team after it launched a steaming campaign as part of combating Covid-19.

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Source: https://www.news24.com

(1964) Joseph Jackson, "The Vote is the Only Effective Weapon in the Civil Rights Struggle"

Rev. Joseph Jackson, long time pastor of Olivet Baptist Church in Chicago, Illinois, and President of the National Baptist Convention from 1953 to 1982 became the leading spokesperson for the black conservative opposition to the direct action civil rights movement led by Dr. Martin Luther King and

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Source: Black Past

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Black Indians: A Personal and Historic Journey

William Loren Katz has devoted his life to researching and writing African American history. In the following account written to describe the reissue of one of his most successful books, Black Indians, he describes how he became an historian of African America and particularly the black

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Source: Black Past

William Billy Taylor (July 24, 1921 – December 28, 2010) was an American jazz pianist, composer, broadcaster and educator. He was the Robert L. Jones Distinguished Professor of Music at East Carolina University in Greenville, and from 1994 was the artistic director for jazz at the John F. Kennedy

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Source: AA Studies Research Guide

(1984) Rev. Jesse Jackson, “The Rainbow Coalition”

In 1984 Rev. Jesse Jackson campaigned for the Democratic nomination for the Presidency. Although he entered the Democratic convention at San Francisco with little hope of winning, his appeals on behalf of the dispossessed of America whom he characterized as the Rainbow Coalition, ensured that his

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Source: Black Past

LEGACY: Betty Brinson helped keep Memphis in tune - TSDMemphis.com

Anyone who has been to Brinson’s Downtown Lounge to enjoy a jazz set likely knows its owner, Betty Brinson. On Monday morning, Jan. 11, she died, according to her eldest son, Eric Brinson. “Mother had not been sick at all, but she started not feeling well around New Year’s Day,” said Eric. “She

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Source: TSDMemphis.com - The New Tri-State Defender - TSDMemphis.com

YOUNG VOTERS SHOWED UP AND SHOWED OUT | The Crusader Newspaper Group

By Julianne Malveaux Voters between 18 and 29 made history in the 2020 election. According to the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning & Engagement, or CIRCLE [https://circletufts.edu/2020-election-center], at least 52 percent of them, and perhaps as many as 55 percent, voted. That

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Source: The Crusader Newspaper Group

New York Attorney General scores another major court victory for Caribbean ‘Dreamers’

NEW YORK, United States (CMC)— New York Attorney General Letitia James has scored another major court victory for hundreds of thousands of Caribbean and other “Dreamers” across the United States who are eligible for Deferred...

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Liberia: Lonestar Cell MTN Announces 2020 Edition of Y'ello Scholars Program

Lonestar Cell MTN has announced the launch of its scholar program, the Y'ello Scholars Internship and Graduate Trainee program for

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Source: allAfrica.com

The 26-year-old NASA engineer using hip-hop to get more minorities into STEM - Face2Face Africa

Dajae Williams is not your average NASA engineer. She never dreamt of working for NASA because she had math phobia as a child. Her high school teacher mistakenly placed her in an honors geometry class and today, she is a quality control engineer for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at NASA. Her team

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Source: Face2Face Africa - The Premier Pan-African Voice

Youth are main virus spreaders - VIDEO

Young people have emerged as superspreaders of the novel coronavirus as Kenya’s confirmed cases approach

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Source: Daily Nation - Breaking News, Kenya, Africa, Politics, Business, Sports | HOME

The Tuskegee Airmen on BlackPast.org

The film Red Tails which depicts the Tuskegee Airmen in World War II, opened on the weekend of January 20-21 in theaters across the nation. BlackPast.org in support of the Seattle, Washington youth violence prevention program of THE SILENT WAR and other organizations which have vowed to use this

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Nkom, Alice (1945- )

Alice Nkom broke barriers for women by becoming the first female barrister in her country of Cameroon. She is also well known among Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) activists worldwide because of her legal advocacy for gay

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Let Us Spray: How Graffiti Went From Clandestine Act to Urban Art – Free Press of Jacksonville

The word graffiti comes from the Greek term “graphein,” which means “to draw, write, or scratch.” It also translates to “scribble” or “inscription” in Italian (“graffito,” singular; “graffiti” plural.) During the 20th century, the street art that [...]

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